SNARE and C2 auditing under 2.5.x

Sorry for the late reply - I've only just spotted the May 21 thread.

If people are interested, then definitely!

I'm about 80% of the way through a kernel-patch version of snare, and have it working nicely on a 2.4.18 based system. I'm just about to try and re-apply the changes to 2.4.20 tonight.

For those that don't know, Snare is a C2-style auditing capability, roughly analagous to Solaris BSM, or the Windows EventLog subsystem. Until recently, Snare existed as a kernel module that used sys_call_table to overlay auditing functionality on a bunch of system calls (yes, I know - it should be the 8th deadly sin ;). It's now being retooled as a kernel patch.

I've heard through the grapevine that Snare is a required part of the US DoD Common Operating Environment for Linux installations, has been evaluated by mitre.org, was one of the apps in the 'use of open source tools in the DoD' report that came out a while back, is in use inside the Aussie intelligence community (no jokes about contradictions please ;), was recently featured at SANS, and is also part of RH Adv Server... so it's probably becoming too popular to run as a 'two occasional developers' project - at least for the kernel components.

Although I've been working with audit logs on a bunch of systems for many-a-year, my kernel experience is limited, so although the RH kernel team has helped out in the past, and AC has offered to cast an eye or two over the code, it's probably time that we consider including more capable hands in the development process - any assistance, or suggestions on the way forward, would definitely be welcome!

Regards,

Leigh. (please cc me in replies - Leigh [dot] Purdie at intersectalliance DOT com)

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Hello,

Sorry to disturb with a winmodem ...
don't flame me please !

Is there somebody having a working 536EP linux modem driver on 2.5.xx series ?, I began to port the old
driver but with many irq problems related stuff, just compilation stage at this time ... :(

Regards.

Nicolas.

00:0a.0 Communication controller: Intel Corp. 536EP Data Fax Modem
Subsystem: Creatix Polymedia GmbH V.9X DSP Data Fax Modem
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17 Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

Hi!

Do you have driver sources?
Pavel

When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]

You have access to a part of the sources :(

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/Intel/

but there is a big "536epcore.lib",
I don't know if it is workable in a 2.5 kernel ... I was just trying to compile the source part and it doesn't because of irq related stuffs at this time.

Maybe I'm too naive, and
536epcore.lib is a big problem...

Nicolas.